On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 13:12 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Morning all. > > I've got quite an intermittent problem with my laptop: > When I boot, sometimes it gets as far as starting GDM, and then the > screen goes blank as per the usual change from a text display to a > graphical one, but the grahical one doesn't appear - I'm left with a > blank screen that is definitely powered up. > ctrl-alt-F* doesn't get me anything viewable. It's not yet happened on > enough of a network for me to know whether the network's still up or see > if I can ssh in. > In general, powering it off then rebooting gets it working. It does work > more times than not, but I'm not sure of the ratio. Somewhere a bit > better than half successful, I'd imagine. > > It's an IBM Thinkpad T21, with a Savage graphics chipset. I'm running > Debian 4 fully updated. > The xorg log is at: > http://aviswebsite.co.uk/moses211108.xorg.log > And doesn't seem to contain any errors, but I don't really know what to > look for beyond EE and WW. > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! > > -- > Avi Greenbury :) http://aviswebsite.co.uk
The system should always behave the same when booting, hence something is wrong reading the data into memory. You might want to do a 'fsck' of all partitions (except swap of course). Best, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
